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Yashika Goel February 1st, 2024 9:23 PM 0 COMMENTS

COAI and ISpA Laud India’s Interim Budget 2024

The Indian Government has extended the current customs duty exemption granted to vessels engaged in laying submarine cables to September 30, 2024, from its earlier date of March 31, 2024. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), representing Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) and telecom equipment vendors in India, lauded the move, emphasising the telecom sector's heavy reliance on submarine cables for high-speed data transfer globally, and stating that this extension... Read More

Yashika Goel December 23rd, 2023 3:13 PM 0 COMMENTS

COAI Highlights 2023 Year-End Perspective for Indian Telecom

Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) is an industry association of mobile service providers, telecom equipment manufacturers, and other communication services and product companies in India. COAI's primary objective is to advocate for policy and regulatory issues that impact the mobile and communication industry in India. COAI works towards creating a favourable environment for the growth of the telecommunications sector and ensuring that the interests of both operators and consumers... Read More

Srikapardhi August 8th, 2023 4:44 PM 1 COMMENTS

Airtel’s Impressive Postpaid Growth: Strengthening Leadership and Driving ARPU

Bharti Airtel's postpaid services are not new to Indian consumers. Airtel has added the highest-ever postpaid net adds of 0.8 Million in 1Q FY24. However, the emphasis is on the fact that despite the competition's lucrative free trials or measures to bundle more benefits in the least expensive plan possible, Airtel continued to add postpaid users. Overall, Airtel has strengthened its leadership position in the Postpaid segment with the highest... Read More

Tanuja K June 21st, 2023 9:58 AM 0 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Equipment Makers Eye US Business Opportunities

Indian telecom equipment manufacturers are poised for potential business collaborations in the United States as Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on his visit to the country. This move comes as the US government has raised security concerns and limited the sale of network gear from major Chinese companies. According to a TNN report, a group of Indian companies recommended by industry body VOICE, including the TCS-Tejas-CDoT consortium, Shyam Vihaan Network,... Read More

Tanuja K March 6th, 2023 9:02 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indian Telcos Might Soon be Able to Install Small Towers Without Permission

Indian telecom operators could soon be able to install small towers without permission from the government. Along with that, a CNBCTV18 report adds that there might not be any approval required for the installation of BTS of up to 600W. The government might soon announce new guidelines that would enable this to happen. Once the guidelines are released, the telcos would be able to install small towers on street lights,... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 16th, 2022 3:36 PM 8 COMMENTS

BSNL Bundles 600GB of Data and Eros Now with this Prepaid Plan

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a state-run telecom company in India, has a prepaid plan on offer for customers that bundles 600GB of data and an Eros Now subscription. This is a plan that would become a really good offering from the company once it launches 4G. BSNL is strongly expected to start deploying 4G in India using local tech by January 2023. It would take the telco around 18... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur July 28th, 2021 8:29 AM 3 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Sector Might Get Relief from Government Soon

The Indian government is thinking about offering relief to the ailing telecom industry. The telecom sector has seen multiple challenges in the last year owing to the increase in data consumption and rising network services demands. To fulfil the needs of the users, the operators have worked really hard and spent a lot of money on improving and expanding their network infrastructure. Adding to the high costs involved in improving... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur June 4th, 2021 10:27 AM 6 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Financial Health Grave, Needs Help: COAI

The importance of telecom services has become crystal clear amidst the lockdowns and the pandemic. For the operators to keep innovating and providing seamless services, their financial books should end on a positive note each year. However, this is not what is happening in the industry. The Indian telecom industry is cash strapped, and two of the operators, including Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Vodafone Idea (Vi), are facing... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur May 6th, 2021 6:55 AM 61 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Users Can Do Without 5G, Need True 4G First

Indian telecom operators need to be at the forefront with their 4G offerings. While one operator (BSNL) in the country almost has a non-existent 4G subscriber base, the other one (Vodafone Idea) is losing subscribers quite fast. Since 5G is going to be the next big thing, the telcos and consumers both are focusing more on 5G than 4G. The truth of the matter is, Indian telecom users can do... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj January 10th, 2019 10:42 AM 1 COMMENTS

Government Increased Spending on Telecom Infrastructure by Six-Fold to Rs 60,000 Crore Between 2014-19

The government increased spending on telecom infrastructure and services by six-folds between 2014-19 to Rs 60,000 crore compared to expenditure made on the same in the previous five years, an official statement said Wednesday. "Six-fold increase in government spending on telecommunications infrastructure and services in the country from Rs 9,900 crore between 2009-14, to Rs 60,000 crore (actual and planned) between 2014-19," an annual official review of the telecom ministry... Read More

Srikapardhi February 2nd, 2016 8:50 AM 24 COMMENTS

Analysis: An overview of competing telecom products and services in India

Every avid reader in India who has been reading about and following the country’s telecom scene must’ve come across terms like 4G/LTE, Spectrum, VoLTE, cloud services and the likes a lot, more so in the past two years. We’ve been hearing for a while about consolidation of small players, stiff competition and how Reliance Jio is going to revolutionize the Indian telecom scene by offering fast Internet at dirt-cheap prices... Read More

Srikapardhi August 17th, 2013 2:51 PM 61 COMMENTS

Are Operators really providing that Freedom in Roaming?

As already shared on TT pages, All the operators started to provide OnNet Incoming free Roaming packs throughout India.In a dual tone let’s appreciate their favor done to those who are frequent travelers and to those who stay away from home zones for longer periods in different states on some work purpose. With such stiff competition among all the operators trying to provide hassle free roaming services,are the Roaming Services... Read More